NEWS

Summary of Contents

• Blackwell Launches 3000 Years of Digitized Backfiles
• Blackwell Publishing Library Survey Coming Soon
• Brand New Librarian Quiz
• New UKSG Working Group Established to Improve Procedures for Journals Transferring Between Publishers
• New Marketing Resources Available for Librarians
• Why Your Community Needs Access to the Journal of Thrombosis & Haemostasis
• Two More Titles Move To Blackwell for 2006
• Many Choices for Archiving Digital Scholarly Material
• Spotlight on the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
• Come Visit our Booth!
• International Review of Finance- amendment from March issue

Blackwell Launches 3000 Years of Digitized Backfiles
We are pleased to announce the launch of Blackwell’s Journal Backfile Digitization Program. All issues back to Volume 1, Issue 1 will be digitized for at least 500 scholarly journals over the next two-and-a-half years, comprising approximately 6.5 million pages by the time the program is complete. The aim is to enable libraries to provide seamless online access to their users to the content of Blackwell journals, regardless of whether an article was published in 2006 or 1906.

The first 121 journals to be digitized are available to purchase now and one quarter of these already have their backfiles loaded on Blackwell Synergy. 51 of the journals now available cover social science and humanities subject areas, 37 cover medicine and healthcare, and 33 are from science. The digitized backfiles for these initial 100+ titles represent 2.5 million pages and almost 3000 years of content. Journal of Phytopathology dates back the furthest so far, to 1852, with Journal of Applied Entomology close behind with a start date of 1876.

Backfiles Title List
The title list will be updated monthly as new backfiles are published or approved for inclusion in the program. The current list of 100 available titles and full information about the program is available here: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/backfiles

Pricing and Licensing Options
All journal backfiles are priced individually. Institutions may license a single title, any selection of titles, all titles in the current Backfiles Title List or the complete backfile collection. All prices are for a one-time fee with archival rights, plus a small annual hosting and maintenance fee.

To license any individual title or small selection of titles, please email backfiles@blackwellpublishing.com providing: the list of journal backfiles you wish to order; your institution name, address, and phone number; your Blackwell customer number (if known); and your VAT number (if registered for VAT).

Discounts on the standard per-journal prices are available on larger orders and for institutions wishing to commit to the whole program. For further information on these special discounts, please contact your Journals Account Manager.

Hosting and maintenance fees will be charged based on the number of journal backfiles licensed. Full details of these fees are available from your Journals Account Manager. All hosting and maintenance fees will be waived until January 1, 2009 on all orders placed before December 31, 2006.

Blackwell Publishing Library Survey Coming Soon
We will shortly be sending you a survey that has been designed to help us gather qualitative data about you views with regard to general journal publishing but more specifi cal ly our service to you. We are offering you a chance to win a fantastic prize of an iPod nano for completing our survey. We can send you the results of the survey if you provide us with your full address details at the time of completion.

Brand New Librarian Quiz
How would you like the chance to WIN $30 worth of Amazon gift vouchers!

Starting with this issue of the Newsletter we will be offering you the chance to take part in a brand new quiz. All you have to do is answer one question and submit your name and email to us. The winner will be picked at random and the deadline for entering is 30 th June. The winner will be notified separately and an announcement will appear in the following issue together with the correct answer. To enter please follow the link below:

http://www.keysurvey.com/survey/103170/1bec . Good Luck!

With the absence of any universally agreed standards, the transfer of journals also causes major headaches for the publishers themselves, with inconsistent subscriber data for institutional, member, society or consortia customers, differing ownership of backfiles, conflicting formats, granularity of linking, and the imperative to maintain links to the previous publishing platform.

Some work has already been done to create standards and best practice for journal movements and other changes. The ALPSP, for example, have published guidance for society publishers, to be found at: http://www.alpsp.org/socjourn1.pdf

The purpose of this Working Group, provisionally cal led TRANSFER and set up under the auspices of the United Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG - www.uksg.org .), is to create a Code of Practice for the transfer of journal titles between publishers. Publishers that adhere to the Code of Practice could become 'compliant' in much the same way as the COUNTER logo is displayed by publishers and vendors compliant with the COUNTER Code of Practice. The goal is to ensure that the transfer of journals between compliant vendors, and, in time, all vendors, follows agreed standards which will reduce the administrative load for librarians and ensure seamless access. In all aspects the Group must be considerate of anti-trust and anti-competition rules.

The first meeting of the UKSG Working Group was held in Oxford , UK , on March 30th, 2006. Proposed members of the Group include: Nancy Buckley, Chair (Blackwell Publishing), Louise Cole ( University of Leeds ), Jo Connolly (Swets Information Services), Helen Crook (Sage Publications Ltd), Nick Evans (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers), Paul Harwood (Content Complete Ltd), Helen Henderson (Ringgold e-Marketing Services), Alison Mitchell (Nature Publishing Group), Ed Pentz (CrossRef), Jill Taylor-Roe ( University of Newcastle upon Tyne )

If you would like more information about the Group, please contact:Nancy.Buckley@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com

• Here's an outline of the resources available to you:
  
  Instructions for using the Library Administration Area of Blackwell Synergy
  http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/Institution_Activation.doc

• E-mail Templates for Alerting Your Patrons
  http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/librarians/marketing.asp?site=1#etemplates

• Free Flyers and Posters
  http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/librarians/marketing.asp?site=1#printed_material

• Features List and Instructions for Researchers Using Blackwell Synergy
  http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/librarians/marketing.asp?site=1#synergy
  

Why Your Community Needs Access to the Journal of Thrombosis & Haemostasis

• History: From December 2002 JTH replaced Thrombosis and Haemostasis as the Official Journal of the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis .
• Quality: JTH publishes more high quality papers in thrombosis than any other journal and received it's first impact factor in only it's second volume.
• Publishing the most articles from the top 500 most cited articles (2004-2005)– using the keyword – thrombosis
• Impact Factor of 4.831 for 2004
• Broad Appeal: JTH is essential reading for those working in all areas of thrombotic and haemostatic research – including;
• Vascular biology
• Cardiology
• Stroke
• Haemophilia and other bleeding disorders
• Timely: Articles in JTH which have been peer-reviewed and accepted, but not yet copy-edited, are now published online via www.blackwell-synergy.com   (Available only with a premium subscription).

From January 2006, the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis was removed from the Blackwell Collection and is therefore now only available on a subscription basis.

For pricing information or to place an order direct with Blackwell, click her e .   You may also order through your usual subscription agent.

For further information or to request a print sample copy please fill out our simple online form, visit: http://www.keysurvey.com/survey/103338/2013

Many Choices for Archiving Digital Scholarly Material
Digital archives for scholarly content are designed to provide access to digital content over a long period of time. Librarians, publishers and governments are starting to consider what, where, and how to archive digital scholarly material. As the development of better solutions emerge criti cal success factors are coming into focus including the role of governance, financial stability, techni cal soundness, and community acceptability for these solutions.

For the scholarly community three broad types of content are generally considered to be in the scope of what we should preserve. These include Type 1: scholarly journals and books. Type 2: supportive research material (data sets, images, associated working documents, DOI's , URL's, pre- and post-prints, lecture material, BLOGS, and more). And an emerging Type 3: which is a capture of the scholarly discourse surrounding the research process (peer reviews, listservs, interactive Blackboards , database interconnections, knowledge environments, and more).

There are four broad categories of approaches to archiving these content types including national, archiving product solutions, buy and build solutions, and community-based solutions. Following is an outline of each of these:

• The national archives may bring with them levels of censorship and access restrictions that remain unacceptable to some, though they are likely to become established as one level of solution for preservation. An example is Koninklijke Bibliotheek , i.e. the National Library of the Netherlands . The British Library Digital Library System is also a solution that is evolving towards a national archive.

• Some organizations are offering full service turn-key operations for archiving. Two types of solutions are emerging so far including offerings by publishers who say their content delivery service can act as an archive and organizations like Portico where content creators are asked to submit their content to these providers for a fee. Librarians are asked to pay as well. There is no guarantee that any of these organizations (be they for-profit, not-for-profit, private or public) will be free from changes in governance or economi cal ly viable over the long term. Issues of what fees they charge and how their technology work are not required to be disclosed.

• The buy and build solutions such as D-Space , and self-built institutional repository services, require institutions (usually university, pharmaceuti cal or corporate libraries) to purchase (or download in the case of open source) the software and install their own archive. These solutions usually bring in Type 2 content (described above) and access by the broader community is only now starting to become more available through collective catalogs and indices and ad-hoc services such as Google Scholar . One solution worth mentioning is the LOCKSS initiative (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe). With over 130 libraries using this tool it has become one of the leaders of its class. LOCKSS does specialize in bringing in Type 1 and Type 2 content and is making efforts to improve concerns of publishers about access control and the community about comprehensiveness.

• Community based solutions are only now starting to emerge. In time search engines, standardization and data-sharing efforts may make indexing and federated searching ubiquitous. At this time those hopes are still aspirational. One exception to this trend is an initiative cal led CLOCKSS which stands for Controlled LOCKSS where it has borrowed the underlying proven LOCKSS technology platform. A team comprised of most of the large publishers and five renowned libraries has come together to provide this community based archive. Over the next two years this collaboration aims to deliver a common governance model for access and control, a shared cost business model, and by starting out with community involvement a broad based community acceptance.

Publishers and societies will benefit from more comprehensive and robust archiving solutions which aim to share the large costs of long-term preservation with the community in a shared and collaborative effort.

Blackwell Publishing is currently participating in several initiatives and will continue to support a diverse approach to archiving. We are participating in test of the LOCKSS , CLOCKSS , Portico , Koninklijke Bibliotheek , and the British Library Digital Library System initiatives mentioned so far. In addition we are also participating in several other initiatives designed to improve the community's joint understanding and needs for comprehensive archiving on many additional fronts. More information about each can be found through the associated links that follow: The Legal deposit system being introduced in the UK for electronic publications. The LIFE project (Life-Cycle Information for E-Literature). The License Expression Working Group , set up by the Digital Library Federation, the National Information Standards Organization, EDItEUR (the international group for electronic commerce in the book and serials sectors) and the Publishers Licensing Society, which aims to develop an XML license expression format.

Spotlight on the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) is a leader among the World's nursing associations, serving more than 22,000 health care professionals in the U.S., Canada and abroad. Through educational materials, legislative programs, research and coalition work with like-minded organizations and associations, AWHONN has firmly established itself as the leading association for women's health, obstetric and neonatal nurses. Read more about AWHONN at www.awhonn.org.

Blackwell Publishing is pleased to be the publishing partner of AWHONN bringing readers their two leading publications, Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing (JOGNN ), the organization's official research journal, and AWHONN Lifelines , its clini cal practice journal, in print and online at www.blackwell-synergy.com

For 10 years Lifeline s has been presenting the practi cal application of evidence and innovation within the most important women's health, obstetric and neonatal topics. Now it its 35 th year, J OGNN contains the most compelling clini cal scholarship regarding the health care needs of childbearing families, newborns, and women throughout the lifespan. Access to both journals is available online at http://jognn.awhonn.org or http://awhonnlifelines.awhonn.org .

*Terms and conditions apply; please see the leaflet for full details.

International Review of Finance - amendment from March issue

In the March issue of this Newsletter we listed International Review of Finance in the list of New and Young titles which are not included in the Social Science and Humanities Collection from Blackwell Publishing. This was incorrect. This journal is included in the Collection package from Blackwell for 2006.

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